“Earlier. Now. Further.” installation by the Ukrainian artist consists of three parts. Two of them - drawing and photography are located on the wall to the left from the corner of the room, the third glassy part, is located on the wall to the right from the corner so that it reflects the first two and a viewer.
«The sense of my work is based on history of the central square of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. With the advent of the new government in 1991 this square takes on a new look and new name – it becomes the Independence Maidan”, Lada Nakonechna says. “On this drawing one can see a transitional stage of the square’s look, and I still remember it like that: this was how the square looked after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the October Socialist Revolution monument with a figure of Lenin had been already demolished, but a new one yet to be set up. On the photo – Maidan after reconstruction in 2001 with a monument of Independence, featuring a figure of a woman on a gold globe that rises a 52-meter column, and an underground shopping mall under all the square area”, she said.
Two-day symposium "Revisiting Footnotes" has become a platform for discussions and exchanging ideas between artists, young scientists and representatives of institutions from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Croatia and Poland. According to L. Nakonechna, “the value of the event lies in focus on artistic relations between the East and the West at the time when one observes that the artistic environment takes an interest exceptionally in the Western Art and Artistic System”.
Also the artist brought attention to the very activity of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, which was founded by George Soros simultaneously with the Centre for Contemporary Art in Kyiv. “If Kyiv CCA has got unhappy and complicated history of misunderstanding on the part of the public and even wider society, the Latvian CCA operates quite successfully”, - Lada Nakonechna commented.
Support of young artists is a program activity of the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation. As part of ‘Cultural Horizons’ program in 2012 the Foundation has provided 15 travel grants to Ukrainian artists to participate in international festivals, contests, and, respectively, presenting cultural achievements of modern Ukraine.
